Re: Groovy Champions proposal feedback

2019-05-11 Thread Daniel.Sun
If FoG takes part in voting process of "Groovy Star", it is a bit like Nobel Prize. Rewarding the winners bonus seems not a bad idea IMO. My 2 cents. Cheers, Daniel.Sun - Apache Groovy committer & PMC member Blog: http://blog.sunlan.me Twitter: @daniel_sun -- Sent from: http://groovy.3

Re: Groovy Champions proposal feedback

2019-05-10 Thread Sergio Del Amo
Paul King wrote: >>>> Yes, I think that is the way to go. The Apache Groovy project recognizes >>>> contributors to the project through making them committers and/or PMC >>>> members. The Groovy Star awards were always proposed to be about the >&

Re: Groovy Champions proposal feedback

2019-05-10 Thread Andres Almiray
r with Friends-of-Groovy in my mind which also >>> has a whole community brief. >>> >>> Cheers, Paul. >>> >>>> On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 12:55 AM Milles, Eric (TR Tech, Content & Ops) >>>> wrote: >>>> Can the open collective

Re: Groovy Champions proposal feedback

2019-05-10 Thread MG
o:dev@groovy.apache.org> *Cc:* Jochen Theodorou *Subject:* Re: Groovy Champions proposal feedback How can we revive this discussion? I still think it's relevant. :) Best regards / Med venlig hilsen, Søren Berg Glasius H

Re: Groovy Champions proposal feedback

2019-05-09 Thread Søren Berg Glasius
nize significant achievements in the >> community and make awards? You could announce one award per major >> conference (Gr8conf, Greach, Whatever2gm). >> >> -- >> *From:* Søren Berg Glasius >> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 8, 2019 9:50 AM >&g

Re: Groovy Champions proposal feedback

2019-05-08 Thread Paul King
award per major > conference (Gr8conf, Greach, Whatever2gm). > > -- > *From:* Søren Berg Glasius > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 8, 2019 9:50 AM > *To:* dev@groovy.apache.org > *Cc:* Jochen Theodorou > *Subject:* Re: Groovy Champions proposal feedback > &

Re: Groovy Champions proposal feedback

2019-05-08 Thread Milles, Eric (TR Tech, Content & Ops)
@groovy.apache.org Cc: Jochen Theodorou Subject: Re: Groovy Champions proposal feedback How can we revive this discussion? I still think it's relevant. :) Best regards / Med venlig hilsen, Søren Berg Glasius Hedevej 1, Gl. Rye, 8680 Ry, Denmark Mobile: +45 40 44 91 88, Skype: sbglasius --- Press ESC

Re: Groovy Champions proposal feedback

2019-05-08 Thread Søren Berg Glasius
How can we revive this discussion? I still think it's relevant. :) Best regards / Med venlig hilsen, Søren Berg Glasius Hedevej 1, Gl. Rye, 8680 Ry, Denmark Mobile: +45 40 44 91 88, Skype: sbglasius --- Press ESC once to quit - twice to save the changes. On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 at 17:40, MG wrote:

Re: Groovy Champions proposal feedback

2018-03-02 Thread MG
...and, of course, the Apache Groovy Community Lifetime Achievement Award ;-) Like the name, +1 (again) on tying the award to a specific year, don't think that mixing commit access with the award makes sense (as in programming: Keep things single purpose - nobdy wants to be fat, be it class

Re: Groovy Champions proposal feedback

2018-03-02 Thread Paolo Di Tommaso
I this proposal +1 On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Daniel Sun wrote: > +1 > > Maybe adding a specific year will be better, e.g. Apache Groovy Community > Award 2018 > > Revoking championship may make champions disappointed... > > Cheers, > Daniel.Sun > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://groovy.3294

Re: Groovy Champions proposal feedback

2018-03-02 Thread Daniel Sun
+1 Maybe adding a specific year will be better, e.g. Apache Groovy Community Award 2018 Revoking championship may make champions disappointed... Cheers, Daniel.Sun -- Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Dev-f372993.html

Re: Groovy Champions proposal feedback

2018-03-02 Thread Jochen Theodorou
hi all, I was thinking a while about all this and all the problems involved here and I want to show an alternative. Apache Groovy Community Award Name surely to be changed. The idea is to give a nominal award for what they did in the past. Somebody getting this award will get this for a rea

Re: Groovy Champions proposal feedback

2018-02-20 Thread Keith Suderman
I may as well chip in my $0.00 worth. I like the concept, that it will be retroactive, and will consider more than just code contributions. I also think the chosen name should be professions looking/sounding and not be "cutesy". Therefore my preference(s) would be: 1. Groovy Champion (to be

Groovy Champions proposal feedback

2018-02-13 Thread Paul King
Hi everyone, A few of us have had various discussions (in fact over many years) about having a recognition scheme similar to Java Champions, perhaps called "Groovy Champions" or "Apache Groovy Champions" or something else entirely if we think of a better name. I think the idea has always been to